The Piecemeal Surrender of Sovereignty
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No, we will surrender (and are surrendering) our sovereignty as a nation-state in little bits and pieces. A minor concession to the UN here, a clause buried deep in an appropriations bill there, a few executive orders that neglect to enforce the law or observe the Constitution…
Then one morning you wake up and say, “Hmm. I wonder where our country went?”
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by Baron Bodissey
The armies of Aztlan will not fight their way up Constitution Avenue and plant the Mexican flag triumphantly atop Capitol Hill. General Petraeus is not going to meet Osama bin Laden aboard an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf to sign our articles of surrender.
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The big story yesterday concerned Congress’ determination to reenact the scene of the last helicopter lifting off the roof of the American embassy, but this time in a Baghdad setting. This is bad craziness, and my mind reflexively turned away from it.
But the smaller news items had their own dark little stories to tell...
posted by jillosophy at 7/13/2007 01:05:00 PM
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